The Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s (VMC) street food hub, located opposite the Kamatibaug near MS University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, has been named one of the country’s three clean street food hubs.
Vadodara has also stood third nationally in the ‘Eat Right Challenge’ of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
The awards were given away by FSSAI on the occasion of World Food Safety Day. Vadodara not only won third place in the ‘Eat Right Challenge’ nationally, it also stood first in the state.
The FSSAI invited 188 municipal corporations and districts across the country to take part in the challenge. At the event on Tuesday in Delhi, 75 of these were certified. Vadodara not only received the certification, but also came in third place after a series of activities aimed at making food safer in the city.
The food safety department of VMC also gave hygiene ratings to 220 hotels and restaurants, two clean street food hubs were certified, nine temples were also given certificates and five campuses were declared Eat Right Campus status.
An additional health officer of VMC and designated authority under the Food Safety and Standards Act, Dr Mukesh Vaidya, said that the award was a result of the recognition of the work done through these activities.